How does your resume hold up for a Frontend Developer role?
Paste a Frontend Developer posting and your resume. Get the score, the gaps, and what this role's ATS screens actually check for.
"Proficient in HTML, CSS, JavaScript" tells an ATS nothing in 2026 — every frontend req assumes the basics, and listing them as your headline skill signals you're still thinking of the job the way it was scoped a decade ago. What actually gets screened for now is the framework, the performance numbers, and whether accessibility was ever your problem to solve rather than someone else's. Check what your resume actually evidences against a real posting before you find out from silence which of those it's missing. The gap between a resume that lists tools and one that evidences outcomes shows up fastest here, because performance and accessibility are both things a reviewer can independently verify in seconds once you've shipped the product.
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What this role's postings ask for
- React
- TypeScript
- JavaScript (ES6+)
- Next.js
- CSS / Tailwind
- REST / GraphQL APIs
- Jest / React Testing Library
- Accessibility (WCAG)
- Responsive design
- Webpack / Vite
- State management (Redux / Zustand)
- Core Web Vitals / performance
- Design systems
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Common mistakes on resumes for this role
- "Proficient in HTML, CSS, JavaScript" with no framework named — naming React, Vue or Angular is the actual signal, not the basics underneath it, and its absence reads as either inexperience or an outdated resume.
- No accessibility mention. WCAG/ARIA shows up in most modern frontend postings and almost never on resumes, which makes even one specific accessibility bullet disproportionately valuable.
- Bullets about "building UI" with no metric attached — load time, bundle size, Lighthouse score, conversion — leave a recruiter no way to judge whether the work moved anything.
- Design tools (Figma) listed with no mention of turning designs into working, responsive components — the actual job most frontend postings are hiring for, not the ability to open a design file.
- TypeScript listed as a skill with no sign it was used seriously — generic types, no `any` in shared code, shared interfaces across a team — which is what postings asking for it actually mean.
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Weak vs. strong
Weak Built UI components in React.
Strong Rebuilt the checkout flow in React and Tailwind, cutting Largest Contentful Paint from 3.1s to 1.4s and lifting conversion 6%.
What "evidence" means for this role
On a frontend resume, evidence looks like a number a browser could measure — Lighthouse score, LCP, bundle size, conversion lift — attached to a component or flow you named. "Built UI components in React" is a claim; it says you touched the framework and nothing else. "Rebuilt the checkout flow, cutting LCP from 3.1s to 1.4s" evidences the framework, the scope, and that you understand performance is part of the job, not a separate team's concern. The check below flags exactly this gap: postings that ask for performance or accessibility work where your resume only lists the tools, not what you did with them. The same applies to state management claims — naming Redux or Zustand without describing what problem it solved (shared state across routes, avoiding prop drilling at scale) reads as a tool list, not evidence of judgment.
A closer look at the requirements that matter most
- React / Next.js
- Most frontend postings in 2026 assume a meta-framework, not bare React — server components, routing conventions, and rendering strategy are now part of the job description even when the posting just says "React." If your experience is client-side-only React, that's still valuable, but say so precisely rather than letting Next.js sit unqualified in your skills list if you haven't shipped with it.
- Core Web Vitals / performance
- Performance work is one of the easiest things to evidence and one of the most commonly skipped on resumes, because it requires citing a before/after number instead of describing a feature. A single bullet with an LCP, CLS or bundle-size number attached does more to answer a "performance" requirement than a paragraph about caring about performance.
- Accessibility (WCAG)
- Accessibility increasingly shows up as a named requirement, not an implied one, and almost no frontend resumes evidence it — which makes it one of the highest-leverage single bullets you can add if you've done any of it: a specific WCAG level targeted, a screen-reader fix, a keyboard-navigation pass.
- TypeScript
- Postings naming TypeScript specifically, rather than just "JavaScript," are usually screening for whether types were used seriously on a shared codebase — generic types, no escape hatches in shared code, interfaces other engineers relied on — not just that a `.ts` extension was on the files. If that's genuinely how you used it, say so; if your TypeScript is closer to JavaScript with annotations bolted on, a more modest claim reads as more credible, not less.
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